Increasing Rain, Aging Infrastructure Lead Growing Number Of Municipalities To Adopt Stormwater Fees
Credit Anne Danahy / WPSU David Pribulka, manager of Ferguson Township in Centre County, stood on a suburban street in late February, as snow melted and ran down a drain. The township recently adopted a stormwater fee, and he was pointing to one of the projects the fee will help pay for: a badly needed improvement to a drainage way. "A lot of these storm pipes are undersized. So they become overwhelemed with stormwater particularly after significant rain events and flooding," Pribulka said. “It’s starting to erode the channel throughout. Much of the channel is immediately adjacent to r...
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